Art of the Baroque period of the 17th century embodied a dynamic energy that mirrored the restless spirit of its age. In painting, dramatic images of faith driven by the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation contrast with lively...

Medieval and Renaissance-era scientific instruments are catalogued and displayed. Find references to the makers of the instruments and the ways the tools were once used.

Learn how the political, religious and economic changes in Europe during the Renaissance affected the music of the period. A slide show introduces viewers to a variety of instruments which were developed in conjunction with the new music.

The scene of the three wise men offering gifts to a newborn Jesus was widely painted during the Renaissance era, so how did painter Sandro Botticelli create a version that's still well known today? James Earle describes who and what set...

A description of life in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance, the emergence of humanist thought, and of how the Renaissance got its start in Italy. The Lorenzo de Medici's important role as a patron of the arts in Florence is...

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the early Renaissance painting by Fra Carnevale "The Birth of the Virgin" from 1467, with a description and images of the piece.

A brief overview of women writers during the English Renaissance. Related links to different writers.

Overview of dance in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. It includes the changes dance forms underwent, description of English Country Dance.

Detailing the history of the renaissance instrument the cornetto, this site provides some interesting information about how it was made and how it was played.

Fordham University offers Sir Walter Raleigh's text entitled "The Discovery of Guiana." It is very specific and descriptive.

The Library of Congress presents the "Political and cultural history of France from 1498 to 1661" France's Renaissance, eight civil wars, and the Bourbons. Also click on "The Rise and Fall of the Absolute Monarchy," for history from the...

Discussion of the knight in the social organism of Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene." From The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Useful for research and for focusing on women's writing during this influential period, this article includes a lengthy bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

When presented with the problem of hoards of illiterate commoners, English clergymen in the 11th century created plays to spread word about the Bible. Eventually, the plays moved out of the church and into the streets. Mindy Ploeckelmann...

History of the Harlem Renaissance, including information on prominent writers of the time period.

This site has a list of fifteen artists from the movement with links to images in various museums.

This site displays both a biography and several works of art of the great Florentine Renaissance architect and sculptor. Links are provided that go into greater detail about the works and the history of his time.

A supplement to a ten-part film series on jazz, this resource describes the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to the Lincoln Gardens on Chicago's south side, where Louis Armstrong first won fame,...

The lesson examines the origins of mathematics. Strings of symbols, the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, Arabian scholars, and the Renaissance are discussed.

Although brief, this discussion of the clash of cultures in the 1920s covers all the reasons for cultural discordance.

This article by Morris Dickstein traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century to the late 20th century. It includes a section for each century providing historical...

Reprinted from essays and lectures by Oscar Wilde. Discusses the characteristics of the English Renaissance of Art.

A site from the University of Michigan on various types of forgery in art from the Renaissance period to today. This site also covers website forgery and the internet.

Painted during the Great Depression and funded under the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project these murals carry with them a history worth noting.